Acura’s RSX prototype is a taste of what’s to come with Honda Zero

Acura is bringing backmost the RSX sedan arsenic a premium, dramatic-looking, all-wheel thrust electrical crossover that’s besides the archetypal exemplary engineered in-house connected Honda’s caller planetary EV Platform. This is the aforesaid level that volition yet underpin the automaker’s Zero series, which is expected to spell into accumulation adjacent twelvemonth on with the RSX. So suffice it to say, the resurrected RSX is simply a large woody for Acura and its genitor company.

The RSX Prototype is making its planetary debut this week astatine 2 Monterey Car Week events: The Quail Motorsports Gathering and Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Acura says it volition assemble the RSX astatine Honda’s EV Hub successful Ohio, connected aforesaid accumulation enactment arsenic Acura Integra, starting successful the 2nd fractional of 2026.

When it arrives, the all-electric SUV volition assistance footwear disconnected what Honda anticipates volition beryllium a caller epoch of software-defined vehicles. That’s due to the fact that the RSK volition debut the proprietary, in-house-developed Asimo operating system that Honda announced CES earlier this year. Asimo volition power the vehicle’s halfway functions and person updates implicit the air, truthful it theoretically tin amended implicit time. Asimo volition besides underpin the automaker’s new Honda Zero vehicles, with the archetypal being the Honda 0 SUV. So far, Acura’s lone EV successful the marketplace is the ZDX, which, like Honda’s Prologue, is built connected GM’s Ultium EV platform.

The RSX Prototype is based connected the Performance EV concept that was revealed astatine past year’s Monterey Car Week. The Prototype retains a batch of the crisp angles that gave the conception an astir boat-like appearance. But portion it surely isn’t arsenic wild-looking arsenic the concept, the Prototype’s beforehand extremity is assertive and successful your face, with slit-like daytime moving lights that offset the Acura logo successful the middle. Acura says that the full-width rear taillight are meant arsenic a homage to the 2nd procreation NSX, complemented by a caller “ACURA” logo splashed crossed the tailgate. (In different NSX news, Honda has said to expect a caller “NSX-type” electrical sports car successful the works for 2027 oregon 2028.)

Acura isn’t releasing immoderate of the cardinal specs yet, which makes consciousness since this is inactive conscionable a prototype. So we’ll person to hold a small longer to larn astir the range, artillery size, acceleration, and price. The Prototype rides connected multi-spoke 21-inch rims, with the agleam reddish calipers of the ample beforehand Brembo brakes peaking through. A coupe-like silhouette and a fastback roofline is definite to beryllium an denotation of awesome show capabilities.

In different archetypal for Acura and Honda, the RSX Prototype tin service arsenic a mobile vigor portion that tin powerfulness different appliances, including a full house. Bidirectional charging is progressively becoming a highly sought aft diagnostic successful caller EVs, truthful Acura is trying to get up of that inclination with the RSX.